How does a neuroscientific biological perspective explain behavior? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand ...

What if our understanding of consciousness has been missing the point by trying to compare it to software? The debate on the origins of thought has long pitted two schools against each other. On one ...

When it comes to explaining how planets are formed, the protoplanetary hypothesis is the most widely accepted explanation. In simple terms, the donut-shaped disc of dust and gas around a star forms ...

For various, typically historical reasons, even the best physicists claim things that sound egregious to modern observers. That doesn’t necessarily mean these ideas are completely useless—if anything, ...